The Jockey Club of Turkey has acquired seven stallion in the last two years.

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Fast-closing grade 2 winner Plum Ali will try to get untracked Sept. 19 in the $150,000 Pebbles Stakes where the daughter of First Samurai is expected to face a dozen other 3-year-old fillies in the one-mile test on the Widener Turf at Belmont Park.

More than top-level black-type is on the line Sept. 19 at Woodbine when the track stages the Summer Stakes (G1T) and Natalma Stakes (G1T). The two CA$400,000 turf races at a mile for 2-year-olds serve as Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” qualifiers.

Acacia Courtney and Andy Serling preview the Jockey Club Derby and Jockey Club Oaks from Belmont Park opening weekend.

More than top-level black-type is on the line Sept. 19 at Woodbine when the track stages the Summer Stakes (G1T) at Natalma Stakes (G1T). The two CA$400,000 turf races at a mile for 2-year-olds serve as Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” qualifiers.

Godolphin’s Creative Flair and Flaxman Holdings’ group 3 winner Harajuku will invade from across the pond when taking on five American-based contenders in the $700,000 Jockey Club Oaks Invitational Stakes Sept. 18 at Belmont Park. 

Dave Liftin analyzes stakes action Sept. 18 from Belmont, Woodbine, and Churchill.

J. Keeler Johnson handicaps five weekend stakes races trainer Charlie Appleby has horses entered in.

Book 2 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale concluded Sept. 16, and while it may have come in like a lamb, it went out like a lion as 20 horses brought above $500,000 in the fourth session with gross receipts of $48,801,000 for 201 head sold.